The federal government said Tuesday that contractors began building eight prototypes of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico, hitting a milestone toward a key campaign pledge. Construction in San Diego began three months behind schedule after those who didn't win contracts protested. The building process will last about 30 days, Customs and Border Protection said. The agency may pick several winners, or none. It said in a news release that the prototypes 'will inform future design standards which will likely continue to evolve to meet the U.S. Border Patrol's requirements.'

A woman in Florida tried to run over her daughter's 33-year-old husband after he exposed his affair with her to her daughter. Kathleen Regina Davis (left with daughter Hannah Sciarra, and bottom right in mug)), 58, told police she wanted to kill her daughter's husband, Michael Sciarra (top right), after his admission of their indiscretions ruined their mother-daughter relationship. According to police, the Jupiter mother drove to her paramour's home on September 20, where she threw eggs at his house and car.

The 15-year-old girl who went on the run with her 50-year-old teacher in Tennessee for five weeks has revealed she doesn't regret it and that it was an experience she'll live with for the rest of her life. Elizabeth Thomas sparked a nationwide manhunt when she was allegedly kidnapped by Ted Cummins, her former teacher at Culleoka Unit School on March 13. Cummins was arrested on April 21, five weeks after going on the run from Columbus, Tennessee, Thomas when they were found hiding out in a rural cabin near Cecilville in northern California. Thomas said: 'I don't regret it, nor do I say it was the right thing to do,' the teen said. It was an experience I'll have to live with the rest of my life. It's good and bad. It's there. No matter what we do, we'll have to deal with it.'

Rob O'Neill, 41, the SEAL who revealed he had shot the al Qaeda mastermind, exclusively tells DailyMailTV he is married to Jessica Halpin, 27, after a two-year romance. The couple were married at a Catholic church in West Harwich, Cape Cod last month, with guests at the ceremony including Kid Rock. They honeymooned on Bora Bora (right) and are now settling into married life. Jessica tells DailyMailTV how she did not know about Rob's heroism when she booked him to speak at a conference for the New York power line company where she works. 'My friend and I were going for a drink after the conference and we invited him. He asked for my number,' she said. He said: 'When I got on stage to make my speech, I meant to thank the industry and her boss but I only thanked Jessica.' They celebrated their wedding with O'Neill's friend Tim Montana, a country singer providing the music - and local law enforcement providing the heavy security. 'It was an awesome day and we were surrounded by so many people we love,' Jessica tells DailyMailTV.

Investigators found the charred human remains of Ally Steinfeld in a burn pile and in a bag inside a chicken coop near a mobile home in Cabool, Missouri last week. Steinfeld, who was born Joseph, had her eyes gouged out and was stabbed in the genitals before her body was set on fire. Four people have now been charged over Steinfeld's death. James Grigsby, 25, was charged Monday with abandonment of a corpse and tampering with evidence. Three others, including Andrew Vrba, 18, Isis Schauer, 18, and 24-year-old Briana Calderas, were earlier charged with first-degree murder and other counts.

'Megyn Kelly Today' may have premiered to solid numbers, but the host just got a very scathing review from her very first guest. Debra Messing, the Emmy-winning star of 'Will & Grace,' was asked on Instagram why she appeared on the show with her fellow cast members on Monday. 'But why did you guys do the Megyn Kelly show? That's a fail!!' asked a fan of the actress. Messing immediately responded to the question, stating: 'Honestly I didn't know it was MK until that morning. The itinerary just said Today Show appearance. Regret going on. Dismayed by her comments.'

Brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of murdering their parents at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1996, in a case that shocked the nation. The two young men, who were 18 and 21 at the time, said they acted in self-defense after years of horrible sexual and emotional abuse by their father Jose. However, they were found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Their cold-blooded crime and tragic story is featured in the NBC real life drama Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders special, premiering on Tuesday. Cast members have spoken out about the brothers' fates. Actors Gus Halper and Miles Gaston Villanueva, who play the brothers, said their punishments don't fit the crime. Lolita Davidovich, who plays their mother, said she believes the men deserve parole and said what they did was 'understandable'. Pictured: The brothers in court (right), the boys with their parents (top left), the scene of the murders (bottom left) and Halper, Villanueva and Davidovich (inset).

AMERICA AND NORTH KOREA ON THE BRINK

Otto Warmbier's parents have revealed for the first time the horrific state he was in when he returned from North Korea after being tortured into a coma. They say their 22-year-old son was blind, deaf and had mangled teeth when they first laid eyes on him after he was brought back to the US following his brutal 17 months imprisonment at the hands of Kim Jong Un's regime. Fred and Cindy Warmbier told Fox News on Tuesday that they heard a 'howling' sound when they walked up the steps of the private medical plane carrying their son after it landed Cincinnati, Ohio back on June 13. They quickly realized it was their son Otto as they saw him screaming and jerking violently on a stretcher. His parents said Otto spent his final days jerking and moaning in the tortured state before he died at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center on June 19.

'If we take that option, it will be devastating, I can tell you that, devastating for North Korea,' Trump said during a news conference. 'That's called the military option. If we have to take it we will.'

Wendy Williams took to her TV show on Tuesday morning to flash her wedding ring in the wake of a report that her husband was cheating on her with a younger massage therapist, declaring that she was standing by her man. The daytime talk show host was spotted heading into her Manhattan studio just hours before making the bold declaration, wearing a leopard nightie, fur-cuffed robe and furryy slippers and hiding behind huge sunglasses. Williams looked put-together and confident as she held up her sparkling wedding ring and told her cheering crowd: 'You can believe what you want. I stand by my guy.' It was revealed on Monday that Williams' husband Kevin Hunter moved Sharina Hudson into a $765,000 home.

William Gray (left), 43, a truck driver and reserve officer, who Utah nurse, Alex Wubbels (right during her arrest), was protecting when she refused to allow police to draw his blood, died late Monday night.

TRUMP AT WAR WITH THE NFL OVER ANTHEM PROTESTS

George Clooney has weighed in on the NFL national anthem protests by penning a poem in support of the kneeling players. The actor gave his two cents on the kneeling issue on Tuesday in a poem published by The Daily Beast. In the 10-line poem, Clooney said he prays to 'find more that unites us than divides us' and prays 'that our nation's leaders want to do the same.'

President Donald Trump defended his intense focus on the NFL protest issue - insisting at a White House press conference that the topic was 'very important' and that he was not 'preoccupied' with it. Trump said at a Rose Garden press conference he was 'ashamed' by what he saw when viewing games. He pushed back on claims the controversy took his focus off Puerto Rico, saying his administration had done a 'great job.' He added: ''I have plenty of time on my hands. All I do is work.'

The 911 calls in the September 2015 death of off-duty Chicago police officer Donald Markham made by his wife, Dina (pictured together, left), were released on Monday as authorities say they're now looking into the case as a possible homicide. Dina is heard on the tapes telling an emergency dispatcher that Donald is unresponsive and bleeding from his head, and begs for an ambulance to come to their Norwood Park home (inset). The 51-year-old's death was ruled a suicide via a self-gunshot wound to the head after a medical examiner conducted an autopsy. Then, on May 28 of this year, 47-year-old Dina (right) was found dead in the bathtub of the family home. The death was ruled an accidental drowning after consuming a dangerous mix of alcohol and anti-anxiety drug Xanax.

HURRICANE MARIA STRIKES PUERTO RICO

The images, from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite, show how vastly different the power supply was on July 24 compared to Monday. San Juan and other cities barely have any light, while the island of Vieques is covered in complete darkness. Most of Puerto Rico has been without lights or air conditioning since Maria wiped out generators when it made landfall last Wednesday. More than 3.4 million US citizens still lack adequate food, water and fuel five days after Maria pounded the island as a Category 4 hurricane. San Juan's airport is finally up and running with nearly 100 arrivals and departures daily, including military and relief operations as well as more than a dozen commercial passenger flights.

James Callender jumped on the growth and then used a stick to pop it at his home in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. The bizarre bubbles are usually caused when water gets trapped between a lawn and a membrane laid to limit weed growth underneath. The water cannot drain and causes the ground to balloon. 'I found this odd Lawn Bubble in my back yard. So strange but interesting,' he said after posting the video on YouTube. 'I've never seen this before in all my life but apparently its rained so much that it's made a water bubble in the yard.

Catastrophe has struck the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' with flights carrying extra fuel in case of a volcanic eruption, 75,000 fleeing a Balinese region and the potential evacuation of an entire Vanuatu island.

The FBI has arrested several assistant college basketball coaches and an Adidas representative allegedly involved in a criminal bribery conspiracy. Adidas global sports marketing director Jim Gatto (left) is accused of funneling $100,000 to the family of a recruit in order to persuade that player to attend a school in Kentucky. Current Auburn coach and former NBA star Chuck Person (upper right) allegedly agreed to take $50,000 in bribes from a cooperating witness in exchange for steering players to a particular agent. Oklahoma State's Lamont Evans (lower right) allegedly earned $22,000 in bribes between his time at Oklahoma State and during a previous tenure at South Carolina. Evans, Arizona assistant coach Emanuel Richardson (top center), and USC assistant Tony Bland (bottom center) allegedly received payments in 'excess of $10,000 under a Federal program involving a grant, contract, subsidy, loan, guarantee, insurance and other form of Federal Assistance.'

Anthony Weiner did not let his impending prison sentence get him down on Tuesday as he spent the afternoon out and about in New York City. The disgraced politician was spotted leaving his Manhattan apartment around noon on Tuesday and heading uptown, where he met up with a mystery man at his midtown hotel. The pair spent a little over an hour inside before leaving the hotel together, with Weiner hopping on the subway to head back home. Weiner was outfitted in the same khaki shorts, blue basketball sneakers and orange Mets cap he wore one day prior, changing only his shirt.

A jogger dubbed the 'mad pooper' after she was busted defecating on front lawns in a Colorado neighborhood is not at fault because she suffered a traumatic brain injury from gender reassignment surgery, according to her mysterious spokesman. An unidentified man claiming to be 'a family representative' of the woman said the jogger wanted to apologize but added that she couldn't help it because she could no longer control her bowels. Police in Colorado Springs were on the lookout for the mad pooper after a family spotted the woman with her pants down outside their home two months ago.

In deeply disturbing footage, video blogger Arslan Valeev, 31, from St Petersburg, pleaded with viewers to call his ex-wife as he visibly deteriorated on camera and his limbs became numb. The actual snake bite and moment of death were not shown, but the blogger - a former zoo employee - allowed viewers to see the bite on his hand. A friend has claimed that Valeev was bitten by accident, but others say he killed himself after being unable to get over the split form his ex-wife Ekaterina 'Katya' Pyatyzhkina (inset and right on their wedding day). Valeev and Ms Pyatyzhkina were famous for running several YouTube channels about exotic animals, however they divorced earlier this year after Valeev beat Ms Pyatyzhkina during an argument. She obtained a divorce on the ground of domestic violence.

People have shared their most amusing and frustrating life fails on Snapchat for the world to see - and their captions only add comedy value to their misfortune. From factory workers who have dropped hundreds of eggs on the floor, bottom centre, psychic fails, top centre and vending machine fails, top right, to those who mistook a bottle of moisturiser for their alarm clock, top left, trampolines that were the victim of the weather, bottom right, and father fails, bottom left, this online gallery of Snapchats proves some people are having a much worse day than you are.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered a cheesesteak at Pat's in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after riding up to the modest, cash-only eatery in a limousine. He posted a photo with the caption: 'Traveled all the way to Philadelphia for the best cheesesteak in the land.'

Elon Musk's California-based firm SpaceX wants to launch satellite internet in 2019, with initial tests planned for the end of this year. It would bring cheap, high-speed internet to people around the world.

State investigators are seeking to verify the claims about dozens of victims of the sinister pair from Krasnodar who were detained after seven bags of body parts were found in their fridge and freezer.

The horror of the Blitz in London has been brought to life after a set of fascinating photographs were colourised. The chilling images reveal terrified citizens camping inside the now-closed Aldwych London Underground station (top right) to escape the aerial bombardment, while others depict chaos amongst the rubble on the capital's streets. Other photos in the series show a girl sleeping with a doll in a shelter adorned with Christmas decorations, bomb victims being helped from the rubble by rescue services personnel and children sitting among the debris. Nurses can also be seen collecting blankets from beds in a bombed hospital in Stepney (top left), while the charred remains of a bus with its roof blown off in Marylebone (bottom right) is also pictured and men are photographed looking at books in a private library in Kensington (bottom left).

This is the adorable moment a man's girlfriend bursts into tears of joy when he surprises her with the puppy of her dreams. When Tamara Alison's (pictured left and centre right) dog Safari died three years ago aged 14 she struggled to come to terms with the loss. But recently the Canadian sociology student, 23, decided she was ready to have another dog and mentioned it to her boyfriend of two years Joah Wood (pictured right). Mr Wood, 22, told her it would be too expensive to get a blue heeler cross border collie puppy - Miss Alison's dream pet. But little did she know the kind-hearted sales manager was scheming with her mother Sandra Alison (pictured top left), 58, to make her dreams come true. The duo picked out a female puppy called Macky (pictured inset and bottom left) after seeing an advert online and planned to surprise Miss Alison with it on her 23rd birthday.

Clayton and Brittany Cook where having their photographs taken on a park bridge in Cambridge, Ontario in Canada, when the groom saw a little boy in distress and leapt in to save him. 'His face was underwater and he was fighting, like he was really fighting,' he said. 'Luckily, he was only a little guy and I just sort of hopped him up.' The photographs of Mr Cook helping the boy to safety(main, bottom right) have now gone viral.

A company has created off-grid dwellings that can be assembled in a week like 'Ikea furniture'. Backcountry Hut Company says their Surf Shack model can be built almost anywhere with materials dropped in by helicopter. The pre-fab structures starting at $45,000 come in various sizes - from 191 square feet to 937 square feet - with the largest housing up to 24 people. The Canadian company lets customers design their own interior or pick from a range of options.

This is the heart-breaking moment a cancer-stricken boy in China cried for his mother in his hospital bed after undergoing painful treatment (pictured). But what the two-year-old didn't know was that he had been abandoned by his mother (inset), who no longer wanted to care for him because of his serious illness. The bedridden boy, named Hu Haoyang, was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer, over a year ago.

Mason Brian Barclay (left) took to Twitter to share a screen grab of his text conversation (right) with his friend's mother, Mrs. Shelton, in which he politely asked whether he would be allowed to attend his friend Houston's gathering. 'If [Houston] had people over on Friday, would I, a very homosexual male, be able to take part in the sleepover?' he wrote. 'I think the common meaning behind only allowing the same sex to share sleepovers is due to the typical interest in the opposite sex, when in this case, I do not like the opposite sex.' Mason's argument apparently resonated with Mrs. Shelton, but in turn, caused her to ask the teen a question of her own. 'Hmm. Well, my husband is hot. Should I worry?' she wrote, which Mason found hilarious.

This is the adorable moment a dog mistakes a girl's workout for play time in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the video, taken this month, the girl can be seen doing push ups on her fingertips in the living room. However, her exercise is thwarted when the dog comes in and starts to bother her.

People from around the world have taken to ViralNova to share the biggest design fails they've witnessed - and some of them will leave you asking: 'what were they thinking?'. From a disabled toilet located up a flight of stairs, left, and poorly placed toilets, top centre, stairs, top right, and fans, bottom right, to seats you can't even sit on, bottom centre, these comical snaps shared online showcase some of the worst building work ever undertaken.

A new book highlights the work of young plastic surgeon Harold Gillies. The images serve as a reminder of the devastating impact of the Great War and offer a fascinating glimpse into early reconstructive surgery. One soldier endured 19 operations over 6 years to repair his destroyed face.

Cees Cornelis and Madison Elizabeth are the owners of Vladimir the black and white cat, who embarked with them on a 10-month cross-country trek. The family, who also welcomed a baby boy on the way, have visited every one of the parsk in honor of the 100-year anniversary of the National Park Service. Upon completing their lengthy excursion, the family write that they initially intended to return to 'normal life,' but 'ended up loving road life way too much to ever look back!'

Pumpkin the raccoon of Nassau, Bahamas, has 1.3million Instagram followers. A video shows her splashing in the tub alongside rubber duckies. When Pumpkin was a month old, she fell out of a tree in 2014 and broke her leg. She was brought back to health by Rosie Kemp and her daughter, Laura Young and is now best friends with the family's dogs Toffee and Oreo. In 2016 Young published a book about her called Pumpkin: The Raccoon Who Thought She Was a Dog.

Dexter the Hedgehog and his owner, Stephanie Gerada, from Welland, Ontario, took a trip to Crystal Beach for the day with a group of friends and were left stunned when little Dexter took to swimming like a fish to water. Stephanie, 18, said: 'When I took him out of my beach bag everyone immediately wanted to see him swim. My friends and I were amazed at this tiny creature swimming in a huge body of water.'

The new 144-page book entitled Treat by photographer Christian Vieler goes on sale today for $9.99. The book captures the hilarious moment different breads of dogs, including the poodle (left) and a Greyhound (right) try to catch snacks. Mr Vieler, from Waltrop, near Dortmund, Germany, first became interested in taking pictures of dogs when he bought a new camera five years ago. The snapper then uploads the funny shots to his social media platforms, under 'Fotos Frie Schnauze.'

Andrew Gudermuth, from Sikeston, Missouri, was watching the game in St. Louis yesterday with his nephew and girlfriend while enjoying a plate of cheesy nachos. During the game Chicago Cubs infielder Addison Russell, 23, chased a foul ball before accidentally running straight into Gudermuth's girlfriend and knocking over his plate of snacks. Russell emerged from the dugout a few innings later with a plate of nachos and delivered it to the fan. He also stopped to take a selfie before heading back to play shortstop.

A horse and a dog who formed an unlikely friendship had no qualms about public displays of affection when they were filmed grooming each other. The two furry friends met for the first time at stables in Laurel, Maryland, U.S.A. and immediately hit it off. A video captures the adorable moment black stallion Phoenix starts grooming his comparatively tiny new found friend Dezi. Making his way around the corgi's face, he nuzzles against his fur, not holding back with his affection. The understandably nervous three-year-old dog lets the 13-year-old horse nibble away at him, before cracking a smile and returning the favour with his own 'kiss'.